This pasta dish is a huge hit with our kids. We've hidden hokkaido pumpkin in the yummy and creamy sauce, which we're topping with bacon, basil and parmesan cheese. We're serving the dish with snack veggies to munch on. Enjoy!

Directions

1. Cook the pasta according to the packet.

2. Peel onion, garlic and pumpkin and roughly dice. Cook until tender in a pot of unsalted water. This takes about 15 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, cook the bacon on a dry pan.

4. Peel carrots and wash cucumber and apple and cut into sticks for snack veggies.

5. Drain the water from the pumpkin, but save a bit of the water in a cup. Add cream, crumbled stock cube and basil leaves (optionally save some for garnish) and blend everything until smooth. Season to taste with salt and pepper and optionally add a bit more pumpkin water, if you want the sauce a bit creamier.

6. Mix the pasta into the sauce and serve with bacon, parmesan and basil on top.

7. Enjoy!

Tip

Tasks for kids in the kitchen: Let your kids cut the apple, carrots and cucumber into snack veggies.
You can absolutely sub hokkaido pumpkin for the likes of butternut squash.